Saturday, October 5, 2013

The Temptress (Revised) by Carter Brown

She's a saucy seductress worth three million dollars

A good catch for a killer.

Grant Roberts Cover
        Murder is just a pretty word to:

The teen-age heiress who prefers ex-cons to college boys.
The society mother who wants the police to lock up her wayward daughter on a morals charge.
The millionaire who buys the favors of high-school girls.
The piano player who runs a profitable business on the side.
Ron Lesser Cover
  But to Police Lieutenant Al Wheeler murder means business. Dirty business. One of this lethal crew bashed in the skull of a peeping private eye and Al is out for blood. A killer's blood!
 

Printing History
Written by Alan G Yates (1923-1985)
  
Horwitz Publications Inc.
Numbered Series #87 May 1960
Long Story Magazine #16 November 1960
International Edition Series #19 June 1962

Bolinda Publishing 
 2001
 Audio Book
 
New American Library
Signet Books
S1817 July 1960
S2898 1966

New English Library
Four Square Books
#970 (1964)
#1743 (February 1967)

More Covers 

New English Library
 UK
1967


New American Library
USA
1960

Australia
Horwitz Publications
1962 

Netherlands
Middernacht
1962

1 comment:

  1. Scott - Lots of different interpretations here. For some reason the New American Library cover strikes me as most appealing.

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